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Train Wreck

Date: 07 1927
Description: On-lookers survey a wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway.
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Flooded Park Street

Date: 07 20 1948
Description: Flooded South Park Street underpass, with car stalled in three feet of water. A train is on the railroad bridge above. A young boy and girl wearing bathing...
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Confederate Ammunition Warehouse Explosion

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Description: A large lithograph of the most immediate of the tragic results of the civil war in Mobile, Alabama, which was the great explosion of May 25, 1865. Federal ...
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Flood Damage

Date: 08 06 1935
Description: Caption at bottom reads: "Destruction of H&N.E. RY Yards." Women in white dresses walk among the puddles along the flood-damaged tracks and trains of the H...
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Wreckage of a Sand Hauler and Railroad Track

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Description: View of a railway at a construction site, with wreckage on the left side and a bridge in the background. Identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town ...
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Illinois Northern Railroad Train

Date: 07 1907
Description: View towards the side of an Illinois Northern railroad train, with two engines, a coal car and a car with the front wall burst out. At McCormick Works. The...

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